时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
afonja
autovaccine
bat away
battery recharge
be stepped up
beerbachite
bidirectional optical communications
bilgy odo(u)r
binomial coefficient
boiler end
bridge pulsation measurement
broad halo
cangshan
cerebellar vallecula
chemical poisoning
chloranthus bouquet
container for packaging
copolyesters
cross wind component (cwc)
current chart
current control device
Demeticiclina
depth engine control valve
diradical
Dissān I.
distribution pipe
duponol C
effective capture cross-section
feix
flowsheet synthesis
gaberlunzie
gas tungsten arc welding
genus Boykinia
genus Horneophyton
giga-steradians
group breeding scheme
hamitic languages
harmonic-motion
have steam on
hebetating
hyperfinctin
impulse action
inbreedings
infantrymen
intendment of law
isentropic weight-chart
jauntingly
keyences
Kissidougou, Rég.Adm.de
l'illustration
leonel
liquefied noble gas
livestock produced
lower frigid zone
lysidin(e)
main dough
majordomoes
marfas
Mariscus aristatus
Menuhin, Yehudi
microlocalities
misyokes
modified polyconic map projection
mucopurulent sputhum
nonfecal
nongregariousness
nonkin
nordhavn
paparazza
pars buccopharyngea
passive defense reaction
phase of flight
photo-reconnaissance
photofluorographic apparatus
quality record tracing card
quasi-eruptive prominence
Rothamsted
route of infection
safety issue
sawy
schem.
seizure resistance
self-irrigation
shoveller
showy daisies
siburan
solecurtus rhombus
SS-22
staphylococcal infection
Stawiski
stimulus generalisation
superfamilial
theah
to settle accounts
toccolosida rubriceps
traversing mechanism
trichroisms
uhlan
unix box
weather maxim
x-axis